2025 Speakers
Richard Atlas, CEO / Creative Director, Clever Endeavour Games
Richard is the CEO and Creative Director of Clever Endeavour Games. Apart from steering the ship, he focuses on game design, but handles tasks in HR, marketing, art, and audio. He started his studies in music, switched to mechanical engineering, and ended up following this path of game development after working briefly as an engineer. He recently started up an organization called Game Dev MTL which brings together all local events in the Montreal industry as well as organizes their own, including roundtables and social events. His experience working as an advisor with the games investment fund Kowloon Nights and his multiple stints as a judge for the Indie Megabooth and IGF have allowed him to see a wide variety of games and pitches over the past 5 years. He sat on the board of a games coworking space called GamePlay Space in Montreal, and mentors in organizations which help developers from groups that are underrepresented in the industry to break in and succeed. Outside of games, he loves music composition, tea, cycling, hockey, game soundtracks, and anything with chocolate.
